Dr. OZ to sell UnitedHealth, HCA shares, steps away from Iherb

Mehmet Oz, President Trump’s choice to supervise Medicare and Medicaid, promised to sell a huge collection of very valuable stock ownership, also in companies that do business with the agencies he will oversee if confirmed for the role.

Disclosure Placed with the Office of Government Ethics it appears that OZ owns the shares in the largest private health insurer in the country, UnitedHealth Group, and in the largest hospital chain, HCA Healthcare, as well as dozens of other companies and suppliers of technology.

In one February 16 Letter to Randall HallThe designated ethical officer for the US Department of Health and Human Services promised OZ to sell all those shares and to resign from advisory roles and to divest different investment funds if confirmed as manager of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.